For fun, they hung an “Open 24 Hours” flag from the pole in the front yard. It was a joke, they said, as they spend most of those “open” hours doing homework at the kitchen table. But neighbors didn’t see it that way, and the students found themselves in the center of a neighborhood maelstrom that’s been swirling for years.

Neighbors call the 1940s five-bedroom Animal House. For years, as it and other nearby party houses threw nightly ragers, neighbors became increasingly irritated. Some installed cameras or started patrols. One neighbor pulled a handgun after a student urinated on his lawn.

UP history lesson: Years ago, when fraternities such as mine, Upsilon Omega Pi, were still on campus at UP, each fraternity had a house that could be called their Animal House, but the houses were NOT so close to UP that the occupants were identified as UP students. Our Animal House was in the Linton neighborhood across the St. Johns Bridge.

I'm glad to hear the partying is still going on........from what we hear as the excuses for not attending UP basketball, I thought everyone was hunkered down 24/7 attempting to stay afloat in the "rigorous" waters of UP academics. Party Pilots! (Be safe!)

UP history lesson II: Some of you old-timers may remember the Upsilon Hearse (a 1936 La Salle)....it was painted purple with the hand-carved woodwork painted white during its UP days. The best parts: 1) The hearse had running boards, so we could "cruise" downtown Portland while hanging on the outside of the hearse, and 2) We could park it sideways at the drive-in movies and open the rear side doors so at least 3 or 4 of us and our dates could drink beer while staying warm in sleeping bags and noting from time-to-time there was a movie on the screen.

Woodless! wrote:A party house in Linnton? Damn, DD, I was born too late.

Sorry Wood, no hipsters allowed in Linnton!

UP History Lesson III:Ten years after my time in the Linnton house, a very new punk rock band called Hari Kari and the Wipers (I believe) used to "practice" regularly there for free beer and food and .......

This picture from the late '70's shows Hari on one of those nights. The picture was pulled from the Upsilon archives/scrapbook at some point and posted on the internet saying it was taken at the Linnton Community Center, but my younger fraternity brothers say otherwise.

Much of the year the house had a bit of damp smell, with lots of empty bottles and lounging ladies in the living area, but during the summer it was a wonderful place to just "chill" waiting for the school/party year to begin again.

We decided that night that we would start a band. We named our band Hari Kari, and soon we hooked up with a neighborhood kid named Spencer Heine, Spencer actually knew how to play guitar! If it wasn’t for him, I think we would still be trying to play a song. The one memorable thing Hari Kari did was in 1979 we hosted the famed “Linton Riot” show at the Linton Community Center outside of Portland. It was ran by the wife of Jack Scott, a friend of NBA star Bill Walton, she was rumored to have been involved with the SLA. The gig featured the Wipers, Neo Boys, Fix, Ziplocs, Hari Kari and a dirt-bag Thin Lizzy cover band from Linton. The cover bands “fans” drank too much and hated all of our bands. A riot soon erupted. The hall was totally thrashed. The next day we collected all the empty bottles laying around and returned them to cover the cost of all the broken windows.

We decided that night that we would start a band. We named our band Hari Kari, and soon we hooked up with a neighborhood kid named Spencer Heine, Spencer actually knew how to play guitar! If it wasn’t for him, I think we would still be trying to play a song. The one memorable thing Hari Kari did was in 1979 we hosted the famed “Linton Riot” show at the Linton Community Center outside of Portland. It was ran by the wife of Jack Scott, a friend of NBA star Bill Walton, she was rumored to have been involved with the SLA. The gig featured the Wipers, Neo Boys, Fix, Ziplocs, Hari Kari and a dirt-bag Thin Lizzy cover band from Linton. The cover bands “fans” drank too much and hated all of our bands. A riot soon erupted. The hall was totally thrashed. The next day we collected all the empty bottles laying around and returned them to cover the cost of all the broken windows.

blacksheep wrote:Just buy it. Once she has a chance to cruise the Willamette in that thing, she will realize how cool it is and will love you forever! However, if that doesn't work, don't mention my name!

Umm, if I were you, I'd be a wee bit careful taking love advice from the lone blacksheep.